> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 331](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33258809) of TL-2 Suppl. VIII > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/20011734-2) LSID 20011734-2, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21390538) QID Q21390538 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Grant, Bartle (Capt.) (1856-1924), Scottish soldier, born 16 Sep 1856 at Rothiemurchus, educated at Edgeborough School, Guildford (Surrey), then a gentleman cadet in Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, followed by the Royal Military College Sandhurst, sub-Lieut. with the VIIIth (King's Royal Irish) Hussars 1875, in Afghanistan (awarded an Afghan Medal) and then India, made Capt. 1883 and then Major 1886, but stripped of latter rank for falling into debt, entered the Border Regiment as Capt. 1890, stationed at Rangoon, returned to England 1898, called back into service during Boer War and entered the Royal Garrison Regiment in Malta, his only child was the post-impressionist painter and designer Duncan James Corrowr Grant (1885-1978), died 16 Apr 1924 in Twickenham (ashes interred in Rothiemurchus). **Abbreviated name**: *B. Grant* \[standard form in IPNI: *B.Grant*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown. #### Bibliography and biography Kew 2: 461. #### Biofile - Bridson, G.D.R. et al., 1980. Nat. hist. manuscript resources British Isles: 404. (index) (as "Grant, B.") - Nelson, E.Ch., 2005. BSBI news 100: 30-31. - Nelson, E.Ch., 2006. Curtis's Bot. Mag. 23: 248-255. (portr.) - Spalding, F., 1997. Duncan Grant: a biography. London (Chatto & Windus). (portr.) ### Publications ##### n.36.958. orchids **Title** The *orchids* of *Burma* (including the Andaman Islands) described... Rangoon (Hanthawaddy Press) 1895. Oct. in halfsheets. **Abbreviated title**: *Orch. Burma*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1895, t.p., p. \[ii, blank\], \[iii, errata\], \[iv, blank\], \[v-vi, pref.\], \[1\]-424, \[1\]-8 \[=index\], \[i, "Memmoradum \[sic\] Form", fold.\]. *Copies*: BM, G, HH(2) (n.v.), K(2, 1 being Grant's own interleaved annotated copy), NY, USDA; IDC E-7315/2. *Ref*.: Anon., J. Bot. 34(407): 487. Nov 1896 (noticed). - *Note*: (1) "A scissors-and-paste job with little claim to originality..." (*teste* Nelson, 2006, p. 252). (2) There was also at least one page in the book intended to solicit information: "As information as to the localities where the different species of Orchids are to be found, and the seasons at which they flower, cannot fail to be of value, I have given some forms at the end of the book which can be filled up from time to time, and sent to me for use should a second edition of this work be called for". - *Reprint* \[1\]: 1966,... Rangoon (Central Press), 416, 8 p. *Copy*: HH (n.v.). - *Reprint* \[2\]: \[1976?\],... Dehra Dun: M/S Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh. *Copy*: US. - *Note*: Reprint \[2\], at least, omits the "Memorandum Form" mentioned above.